This is a very well-researched book, and content-wise, I give it 5 stars. However, there is just too much information, too many names, and too many dates that made it hard for me to keep track of things. There is so much content that it’s a little hard to retain a lot of it.
This made reading the book a little slow at times. Which was odd because every chapter begins with a summary of some important event, and that summary reads like a story or a novel. Those sections were the easiest to read and digest, and I wish most of the book had been written in that manner.

One thing I did not like is that the book doesn’t feel linear. When a chapter ends, the next one begins in the future (with the little summary sections mentioned above). Then the author kind of goes back in time after those summary sections and continues the narrative where the previous chapter ended. For someone familiar with all the historical information in this book, this isn’t a problem. But I picked up this book to learn about all that history since I didn’t know any of it, so this lack of linearity also made it hard to read at times.
Overall, I wanted a book that taught me about Hitler’s rise to power. This book gave me exactly that. It allowed me to draw parallels with today’s world, and it’s a book I think everyone should read